Shoe-lacing hook



(No Model.)

F. EGGE. SHOE LAGING HOOK.

No. 537,446. Patented Apr. 16, 1895.

INVENTUR ATTORNEY NIT'ED STATES PAT NT Futon.

SHOQE-LACING HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 537,446, dated April 16, 1895. Application filed May 17,1894. Serial No. 511.592. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK Econ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Lacing Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of lacing hooks for shoes, and has for its object to provide a cheap device of this nature which may be readily protected by a molded jacket of pyroxyline.

IIeretofore lacing hooks have been made of sheet metal or from wire, and the latter construction would appear to be preferable on account of its cheapness were it not for the fact that considerable difficulty has been'experienced inconstructing a wire hook so that it could be readily set in a shoe upper.

My invention contemplates both the advantages of a sheet metal setting eyelet and an upper portion of wire, and is exceedingly" simple.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved hook; Fig. 2, a perspective of the lacing eyelet. Figs. 3 and 4: are bottom and top views respectively of the construction shown at Fig. 1'; Fig. 5, a sectional elevation of the hook shown at Fig. 1, the head whereof is covered with a molded jacket of pyroxyline; Fig. 6, a View similar to Fig. 5, but illustrating a slight modification in the construction of the lacing eyelet; Fig. 7, a section at the line 00, w, of Fig. 6, and Fig. 8 a perspective of the modified form of eyelet shown at Fig. 6.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

1 is the lacing eyelet having the usual setting flange 2, and 3 is a wire looped around said eyelet beneath the setting flange, the side wires 4 of said loop being brought upward at the back of the eyelet within a notch 5 in the setting flange to form a back for the hook, said wires'being extended forward and spread into so the form of a loop 6 to constitute the head of the hook. The extremities of the wires thus bent are in close proximity to each other at the forward portion of the head of the hook, a slight space 7 being preferably left between said extremities. This notch 5 I prefer to form by bending the flange 3 upward in the general-concave form as shown at Figs. 1 and 2, the function of said notch being to afford a proper seating for the back wires 4 so that the head of the hook cannot be turned around. In practice after the loop has been assembled beneath the flange of the eyelet, said flange is crimped downward and shaped so as to firmly embrace said loop. This notch 5 may however be formed by cutting out from the stock of the flange as seen at Fig. 8 and I do not therefore wish to be limited to any particular manner of forming this notch.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the head of the hook is shown as covered with a jacket of pyroxyline molded thereto, and in this connection I. would state that the space 7 between the extremities of the wires affords a very convenient and advantageous anchorage for the pyroxyline. It is not necessary that this space should be provided, for the ends of the wire may be abutted against each other and the pyroxyline covering be anchored through the open head.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A lacing hook consisting essentially of a metallic eyelet provided with a notched setting flange, a piece of wire forming rings about parallel with each other the rings being connected by the two side wires nearly in contact with each other and lying in the notch of the eyelet, one ring of the wire surrounding the eyelet and embraced by the flange, and the other ring being covered with a plastic covering, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK EGGE. Witnesses:

F. W. SMITH, J r., M. T. LONGDEN. 

